Former Chesterton swimmers Blake Pieroni and Aaron Whitaker made a huge impact in the Big Ten Championships at the University of Iowa over the weekend.
Pieroni, competing for Indiana, shared Freshman of the Year honors with Michigan's Evan White, who...

The first women’s basketball meeting between Northwestern and Maryland became another jewel in the crown of the Big Ten’s new court queen.
A 69-48 victory Sunday at Welsh-Ryan made No. 5 Maryland, a Big Ten debutante, the first women's team to finish the...

CHAMPAIGN --Illinois got back on track with some emphasis.
The Illini broke a three-game losing streak with an 86-60 victory against Northwestern on Saturday night at the State Farm Center.
Their 14 3-pointers on 28 attempts was two shy of tying...

College basketball student sections can’t be judged merely by the decibels registered from their cheers or by how many undergrads pack a gym on a frigid night.
Face-painted, costume-wearing, vocal-chord-shredding 18- to 22-year-olds make Big...

Instead of heating up down the stretch of the regular season, Illinois is facing its longest losing streak of the season.
The Illini have dropped three straight games. And with only three more regular-season contests remaining before the Big Ten...

Northwestern players and their intrepid coach Chris Collins are feeling pretty good about themselves lately, and for good reason.
After enduring a demoralizing 10-game losing streak, the Wildcats have bounced back to win three straight in the Big Ten for...

Both of Purdue's back-to-back wins against Indiana have come at Mackey Arena. Before that modest "streak," the Boilermakers had lost four straight games to the Hoosiers, including two at Assembly Hall.When the teams renew their rivalry on...

INDIANAPOLIS — At NCAA headquarters, the basketball enthusiasts view Selection Sunday as Christmas morning.
This mock selection exercise would be akin to Thanksgiving.
"So let's eat," says David Worlock, the NCAA point man for this event.
And...

Maybe early in his career, Illinois coach John Groce said, he would hear about an opponent's injury and view it clinically and detached, seeing it as a competitive advantage.
Now? No way. He has been through too much. Especially this season.
"The...

After a victory that was as emotional as it was exhausting, Illinois coach John Groce compared his team's efforts to that of Seabiscuit's valiant match-race upset of War Admiral in 1938.
"It was his heart," Groce said Thursday after beating...

Until Friday afternoon, please call me Bernard.
I'm at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis for what's called the Mock Selection Exercise, when media members play the role of actual NCAA tournament selection committee members for two days. Bleacher Report's...

TV/radio: 6:30 p.m., Tuesday; BTN, WMVP-AM 1000.
Records: Northwestern 10-11, 1-7 Big Ten; Nebraska 12-9, 4-5.
Fred Mitchell's quick look: The Wildcats have dropped seven in a row and have not won since Dec. 30 at Rutgers. Each of NU's last six losses...

Too close to call. That's the slim margin for error in Big Ten basketball.Not even Wisconsin's Badgers, clearly the class of the conference, can afford to relax. Witness that lowly Rutgers is reponsible for their only league loss.Northwest Indiana fans...

Illinois had lost eight straight games last season before something clicked.
Starting with a victory against Penn State, the Illini won six of their final 10 games through the Big Ten tournament to salvage the season with a two-game NIT run.
This...

After six straight losses, Northwestern is almost at a loss for words to explain their heart-wrenching defeats.
Saturday evening the Wildcats try to put an end to the nonsense when they host Purdue. The margin of defeat for Northwestern in the last...

The Big Ten was expected to have a down season. But the league isn't meeting those expectations.
It's worse than everyone thought.
"I thought (teams) would take a step back, but not that far," said Jerry Palm, bracketologist for...